From: Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>
Date: 2009-05-15T05:30:12+09:00
Subject: Can you get the 1st occurrence of  a value using grep?

Can you get a 1st occurence of a sting inside a huge text file?

For instance, I  know that there will be 1 or more occurrences of a the
string 'fail' in a text file and I only want to get the first line
containing the 'fail' instead of getting every line with a fail. My
program reads over 100 files that may contain one or more 'fail' values.

Thanks
MC

Dir["//MYFile/*.txt"].each do |textfile|
    getGrepOffense = textfile.grep(/fail/)
    strOffense = getGrepOffense.join
    puts strOffense
end
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